• Corpus ID: 52193722

Optimization-Based Bound Tightening using a Strengthened QC-Relaxation of the Optimal Power Flow Problem

@article{Sundar2018OptimizationBasedBT,
  title={Optimization-Based Bound Tightening using a Strengthened QC-Relaxation of the Optimal Power Flow Problem},
  author={Kaarthik Sundar and Harsha Nagarajan and Sidhant Misra and Mowen Lu and Carleton Coffrin and Russell Bent},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2018},
  volume={abs/1809.04565}
}

• K. Sundar, Harsha Nagarajan, +3 authors R. Bent
• Published 12 September 2018
• Engineering
• ArXiv

This article develops a strengthened convex quadratic convex (QC) relaxation of the AC Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) problem and presents an optimization-based bound-tightening (OBBT) algorithm to compute tight, feasible bounds on the voltage magnitude variables for each bus and the phase angle difference variables for each branch in the network. Theoretical properties of the strengthened QC relaxation that show its dominance over the other variants of the QC relaxation studied in the literature are also derived. The effectiveness of the strengthened QC relaxation is corroborated via extensive numerical results on benchmark AC-OPF test networks. In particular, the results demonstrate that the proposed relaxation consistently provides the tightest variable bounds and optimality gaps with negligible impacts on runtime performance.